Question about Updating Birthdate and your Developer Forum account

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#1

This question has been floating around on my mind lately. What would happen to your DevForum account if you update your Roblox account’s age to <13?

Let’s say I make an account that is 13+, andI have a DevForum account with it. However, I update the account age to <13, and since the DevForum prevents <13 accounts from logging in, what would happen to it? Would I get denied access? Or would I still be able to log in? Now I know I can find the answer to this by making an account or changing my account’s birthday and testing it out myself, but I feel that is just a waste of time just to find out an answer to a simple question.

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#2

I think it would be similar to what happens on Discord, you would basically get locked out of your account.

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#3

Your account will probably get suspended. I’ve seen it happen.

But why do you need to know this :thinking:

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#4

This would bring clarification to rules about age 13+ or <13 on the DevForum.

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#5

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It would just lock you out next time you try to sign in. It doesn’t suspend the account or anything, (EDIT:) and it doesn’t boot out existing sessions.

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#6

I am gonna try with an account that I made. I will send photos.

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#7

That’s where my photo is from, no need. I tested this myself too.

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#8

Why can’t we join devforum if we are under 13,my brother he is 11 but he know c,c++,java,…

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#9

So, yea. It showed me 1st “Add your parents email” and I get 2 opinions. 1. Return to Roblox.com or 2. Do it. And I did use my email and then got the error message:

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With one option, go back.

#10

So there you have it, what happens if you use a <13 account, in Dev forums.

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#11

Because it is extra effort to make the devforum COPPA-compliant and because the developer forum should be a semi-professional environment.

#12

I went to the Federal Trade Commision website and search COPPA and went to the text rules (Tittle 16- Chapter 1- Subchapter C - Part 312.2) and this is what they state “ (2) Authorizes any collection, use, and/or disclosure of the personal information”.

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#13

Oh, and this is what scammers ( robux scams that you need to put your dob (date of birth)) so they can steal your birthday.

#14

Uh, what? Why would scammers need to “steal” a birthday?

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#15

In some websites, you need to put your birthday to get “Robux” but really what they are doing is stealing information about you. That is why people (like scammers) go to prison.

#16

Do you mean password? A birthday alone can’t be used to steal your account. Now, this is getting off-topic.

#17

Some scammers are not trying to get into your account. Instead they are selling your personal information to others for money.

#18

There is no use in selling a persons DoB, the only reason scam sites ask for that is to seem more legit considering large corporation sites ask the same question.

DoB can be useful if stolen along with things like names and emails, but other than that it has 0 use.

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#19

The DevForum is not complaint with many child safety laws. Addidionally, a few TL0+ (anyone who signs in) categories include profanity not visible for users under the age of thirteen.

As someone who programmed a lot at age 11, your brother may have knowlege of the languages but he will cringe at his older code even if he is an expert.